Table 1.
Description of the Theoretical Domains Framework domains.
Domain | Description [32] |
Knowledge | Awareness of something |
Skills | Ability or competence developed through practice |
Social and professional role and identity | Individual behaviors and qualities displayed in a social or work setting |
Beliefs about capabilities | Recognition of one’s competences and abilities that can be put to constructive use |
Optimism | Confidence that goals and desires will be reached |
Beliefs about consequences | Expectancies about outcomes of a behavior in a situation |
Reinforcement | Increasing the probability of a behavior with a stimulus |
Intentions | Decision to accomplish a behavior or to act in a certain way |
Goals | Mental representations of outcomes one wants to attain |
Memory, attention, and decision processes | Ability to remember information, focus, and choose between different alternatives |
Environmental context and resources | Situational or environmental aspect of one’s life that encourages or discourages the adoption of an adaptive behavior, skill, or competence |
Social influences | Interpersonal processes that lead one to modify their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors |
Emotion | Complex reaction by which one attempts to manage a personally significant matter or event |
Behavioral regulation | Something done to manage or change one’s actions |